短篇小说 | Best-Seller
One day last summer I went to Pittsburgh--well, I had to go there on business.
短篇小说 | Emancipation. A Life Fable
So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering. The door which accident had opened is opened still, but the cage remains forever empty!
短篇小说 | The Duc de L'Omelette
Keats fell by a criticism. Who was it died of "The Andromache"?1 Ignoble souls!—De L'Omelette perished of an ortolan. L'histoire en est breve. Assist me, Spirit of Apicius!
短篇小说 | A Tempered Wind
The first time my optical nerves was disturbed by the sight of Buckingham Skinner was in Kansas City.
短篇小说 | Doctor Chevalier's Lie
The quick report of a pistol rang through the quiet autumn night. It was no unusual sound in the unsavory quarter where Dr. Chevalier had his office.
容易误译的英语 | blue blood
［例句］ Mr. Wu has blue blood in his veins.
［误译］ 吴先生的血管中有蓝血。
短篇小说 | The Domain of Arnheim
FROM his cradle to his grave a gale of prosperity bore my friend Ellison along. Nor do I use the word prosperity in its mere worldly sense.
短篇小说 | A Technical Error
I never cared especially for feuds, believing them to be even more overrated products of our country than grapefruit, scrapple, or honeymoons.
短篇小说 | Dead Men's Shoes
As he rode out of the gate, mounted upon his well-beloved "Jupe," the faithful dog following, Gilma felt as if he had awakened from an intoxicating but depressing dream.
容易误译的英语 | brain wave
［例句］ He got a brain wave and solved the problem.
［误译］ 他患了一种脑波病，但问题已经解决。
短篇小说 | The Devil in the Belfry
EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is -- or, alas, was -- the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss.
短篇小说 | A Strange Story
In the northern part of Austin there once dwelt an honest family by the name of Smothers.
